Toxic (A Calum Hood Fan Fiction)

Chapter 4

     I'm at Ashton's house once again, I don't remember coming here but I am. The weird thing is Ashton isn't around, it's just me and Calum. Calum's features look soft and nice, rather then the dirty looks he's always giving me, and it's a nice change. Neither of us have said anything, we're both just looking at each other, and Calum's sort of...smiling at me? Then he leans in as if he's about to kiss me, maybe he is about to kiss me? Why is he about to kiss me, we hate each other? I find myself slowly leaning in, too. What am I doing? No, no this is wrong. Just as we're about to kiss I hear my alarm clock go off and I'm taken out of my dream... or nightmare maybe. I'm so confused, I have to take a minute to just sit and think. Why would I have a dream about kissing Calum? I hate everything about him, and I'm sure he feels the same about me. I have no feelings for him whatsoever, I mean I can't. I'm pretty sure I'm dating Luke, which reminds me I should probably talk to him. I do really like Luke but I'm kind of curious as to what's even going on between us. It seemed as though we may be dating as of yesterday but we still only met this weekend and it's moving kind of fast. I'm sure he feels the same way. That's probably why we're going on a date next week, so we can both see where this is going.

       I decided that today I wouldn't bother Ashton considering we've hung out all weekend so I text basically one of my only friends that is a girl, Leah, to see if maybe she would want to go get lunch. I met Leah freshmen year and she's always been around when I hangout with Ashton's group of friends because she's Michael's girlfriend, so we bonded over being the only two girls that are constantly around the guys. I probably need a girl friend to talk to right now about all these boy problems. "Hey, are you doing anything today?" I sent and wait for a reply. "Nope, why whatsup?" She responds. "Do you want to go get lunch in a little bit? I've been with Ashton all weekend:/" "Of course! Wanna meet at Starbucks at around 3:00?" "Sounds good! See you there :)" I get up and change out of the pajamas I've been in all day and start to get ready. I've never been so social in one weekend, but it's been a nice change of pace. Usually I sleep as much as possible, read, and watch movies on Netflix. It's a sad social life, I know, but sometimes Ashton watches movies with me and that sort of counts as social? Who cares, this weekend has actually been fun and I'm glad Ashton talked me into going to that party Friday, regardless of my unfortunate meeting of Calum, I still met Luke. I normally don't have crushes on guys from my school, they're normally crushes on guys that are fictional or celebrities, so this whole dating thing is kind of new to me. I check my clock and it's 2:45 so I grab my keys, purse, and phone and head to Starbucks to meet Leah. I always find it odd driving my own car because I normally do everything with Ashton who prefers to drive his car. Once I get to Starbucks I see that Leah still isn't here so I just find a table and wait until she gets here to order. I pull out my phone and plug in headphones to pass the time until I see Michael's car pull up. He gets out and goes around to open the door for Leah, who I recognize from her fireball red and orange hair, and hugs her tightly and kisses her on the nose before she starts to walk towards the coffee shop. I can't help but be some what jealous of her relationship with Michael, they're both so happy together and just the way he looks at her with such adoration and awe just proves how in love he is with her. I stand up when Leah comes in to go give her a hug. "Hey Ally! I haven't seen you in a while" "Yeah, sorry I've been so busy lately, I haven't been out much, but Ashton got me to come out and socialize Friday and Saturday, so I figured might as well catch up." "Good, I've missed you! How was the party Friday? I wish I could've gone but I had to work." Leah frowns as we get in line to order. "It was alright, I had the displeasure of meeting one of Ash's more impolite friends, but other than that it was a pretty good time." "Let me guess, Calum Hood?" "Yeah, how did you know?"

       Once we finally get our drinks and snacks we sit down at our table so I can find out more about how Leah knows Calum. "Well before I started dating Mikey, I got involved with Calum," I almost choked on my drink. "Yeah, shocking, I know." "So what happened?" "Well I should've known the relationship wasn't going to work from the start considering that we met at a party and we were both drunk, so Calum did what he normally does and convinced me to hook up with him. I figured we were probably in a relationship considering I had sex with the guy so that was that until I found him making out with some random girl at another party the next week and he basically humiliated me in front of everyone there because I had thought we were dating so I obviously got upset. That night is when I met Michael and he saw me crying outside and comforted me, right before he went back in and kicked Calum's ass. Sometimes you just need to go through the bad guys to get to the good ones." I can't believe what Leah had just told me, I also can't believe I never heard this story from Ashton. "That explains the tension between Calum and Michael. It always seemed kind of weird between them." Leah laughed. "Yeah, I don't exactly know what happened because Mikey told me to stay outside so he could go get my stuff and take me home but I heard from people that Michael punched Calum in the face pretty hard and a couple times. The black eye he was sporting when we came back to school the next Monday was just proof." "Come to think of it, I think I remember seeing that now."

       My conversation with Leah was soon interuppted when I felt my phone buzzing in my purse, Ashton was calling. "One sec," I tell Leah and she smiles understandingly as I get up to talk to Ash. "Hey Ashton, whats up?" "I have no clue how to do this math homework, will you please come over and help me?" "Ash, I'm out right now," "With who? No offense but you only ever hangout with me." That stung a bit... "Leah, and I have other friends Ashton." "Yeah, yeah I know, but can you come over when you get home at least, I don't understand any of this." "Fine, I'm probably leaving in a little bit so I'll text you when I'm coming over." I groan. "Thanks Al, your the best!" Ashton hangs up. I sit back down with Leah. "Everything okay?" she asks. "Yeah, Ashton just called to ask for help with math when I get home." "Oh okay, well you can leave now if you want, I think Michael's on his way." "Are you sure? I could wait with you?" I ask to make sure she's alright with me going. "No, no it's fine! I had fun talking to you, text me more often so we can hangout again. See you soon!" She stands up to hug me and I wave at her as I make my way back to the parking lot to get in my car. I find myself hating Calum even more after today and what Leah told me about him. Why is he such a bad person? I shoot Ashton a text once I'm in the neighborhood so he knows I'm close. I roll my eyes when I pull up to find Calum's car sitting in the drive way as well. I really hope he's about to leave because I'm sure as hell not teaching him math, too.